Ace In The Hole (Criterion) DVD

• 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono (English)
• Audio commentary by film scholar Neil Sinyard
• Theatrical trailer
• Portrait Of A 60% Perfect Man: Billy Wilder, a 1980 documentary featuring in-depth interviews with Wilder by film critic Michael Ciment
• A 1984 interview with Kirk Douglas
• Excerpts from a 1986 appearance by Wilder at the American Film Institute
• Excerpts from an audio interview with coscreenwriter Walter Newman
• New video afterword by filmmaker Spike Lee
• Stills gallery
• PLUS: New essays by film critic Molly Haskell and filmmaker Guy Maddin

Director: Billy Wilder
Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady

One of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker, Academy Award-winner Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole is legendary for both its cutting social critique and its status as a hard-to-find cult classic. Kirk Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter caught in dead-end Albuquerque who happens upon the story of a lifetime-and will do anything to ensure he gets the scoop. Wilder's follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a no-holds-barred expose that anticipated the rise of the American media circus.